Careful, Garry. Don't get yourself put in jail. http://www.russiajournal.com/news/cnews-article.shtml?nd=42135 MOSCOW - Today an anti-Putin coalition "Committee-2008" creation is expected to be announced. This organization, created and promoted for the most part by Union of Right Forces (SPS) party, sets an objective of making a "civil" citizen the next president of Russia, not Vladimir Putin...

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Someone else makes that point. Why pay for the production of an expensive magazine that I don't care about?

Looks like chessplayers are back in the news again, but of course in a negative vein. Check this out - our favorite New Hampshire chess guy is mentioned at the end of this article: ================================================ Spam E-Mail Plays on Men's Deepest Fear Tue Jan 20, 9:02 AM ET

The Winter 2004 issue of Chess Life will have another installment of Chess History, identified on the USCF Web site as Espisode 12. This time the article is not written by longtime Chess History columnist and former USCF president John McCrary, who later resigned from the executive board. The new writer and "chess historian" is Gilbert L. Gigliotti, a professor of English at Central Connecticut...

I am more than a little concerned with recent posts which skate very close to an edge in respect of copyright infringement and personal defamation. I do request that posters will not attempt to misrepresent other's opinions or make knowingly false statements concerning others. This morning I discovered the following statement:- "Neil Brennen" wrote in...

Those who have been around for a while will remember that there was a mandate to repay the $300,000 line of credit by 1/1/04. Was this done?

The prevailing opinion on this newsgroup holds that USCF is losing adult members because of high dues. While I agree that $49 dues cannot possibly promote membership beetter than $39 or $29 dues, in my opinion most working adults don't even think of the extra $10 or $20 per year. It occurred to me, however, that there is something that everyone, including cardboard box-dwellers and perpetual...

The Winter 2004 issue of Chess Life, scheduled to be mailed out the last week in January, is labeled a "Special Bonus Issue." The cover features a group file photo of Fischer, along with Robert Byrne, Benko and Rossolimo. The overhead caption points out that on March 9 Fischer will be 61. A preview of the issue is found on the USCF Web site. George Mirijanian

http://www.uschess.org/org/patrons.php#PP I wondered how the USCF could be offering as tax deductible, contributions made to the USCF, which is how it itinially appears in their advertising. But when you get into the text, you see that your check must be made payable to the US Chess Trust for the donation to be tax deductible. So now another problem.

UPDATE: 60 Minutes has just done an EXPOSE of "stealth marketing." Click the link below for more information. The story shows how wherever you find a discussion group on the internet devoted to something, those who have money to make by controlling the flow of ideas in that group will establish a strong, HIDDEN...

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One week ago Don Schultz's summary of the recent EB meeting said that some sort of decision had been made concerning chess life. He refused to specify at the time as those affected had not yet been notified. Can Don or anyone else now reveal what this decision was? Mark

I'd like to start a discussion for those of us who are convinced that the USCF is a dying organziation, and are not interested in discussing ways of reviving it, or even keeping it functioning at the current low level which it operates now. Instead, how about some brainstorming on what could fill the void, once the USCF goes belly-up? Or do we even need to wait for that? For those who continue...

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Re recent chit chat in another thread about eating before chess play, etc... and subsequent discussions about carbs, protein, fats, metabolism in general... May I suggest you folks pick up a copy of the February '04 Discover Magazine just now arriving at subscribers' addresses and soon on the newsstands. One of the main articles this month has to do with the latest thinking on nutrition based...

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Like watching someone eat themselves to death all the while talking about what they SHOULD be eating. It's SAD. Is that TAPS I hear in the background?